HMS Guachapin (1800)

History
Spain
Name	Guachapin
Launched	1800, Bayonne
Captured	9 April 1800
Great Britain
Name	HMS Guachapin
Acquired	1800 (by capture)
Commissioned	February 1801
Fate	Wrecked 29 July 1811; salvaged and sold
General characteristics
Type	Spanish merchant brig
Tons burthen	176 tons (bm)
Length	80 ft 5 in (24.51 m) (overall); c.63 ft 4 in (19.30 m) (keel);
Beam	23 ft 1 in (7.04 m)
Depth of hold	11 ft 0 in (3.35 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Brig
Armament	Spanish service:10 guns; British service: 12 x 12-pounder carronades + 2 x 6-pounder guns;

HMS Guachapin was a brig, the former Spanish letter of marque Guachapin, launched at Bayonne in 1800, which the British captured early in 1800 and took into service with the Royal Navy. Under the British flag she captured a Spanish privateer larger and better-armed than herself. She also served at the captures of the islands of St. Bartholomew, St. Martin, St. Thomas, St. Croix, Tobago, and St. Lucia, and of Surinam. She served at Antigua as a guard ship but was wrecked in 1811. She was then salvaged and sold.

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